HE official name of this puhlicatiori is n o~v .IsaL1-rI-T c IL CHmfIsTRi-, replacing t h e long established a n d \ w y familiar designation, t h e -1nalytical Edition of Indusirial and Engineering ChPmistry.T h e change in title comes a s no surprise t o you, our loyal readers. W e believe, hon-ever, t h a t you will he interested t o know t h a t under t h e new circulation plan.\\hereby separate subscriptions a1.e maintained for Intlustrial and Engineering Chemistry a n d AS.~L~-TICAL CHEMI~TRT, t h e J a n u a r y print order for t h e latter is .32,600 copies. This is a pleasant surprise to the staff, for the survey conducted last summer to determine whether or not it ab advisable t o effect complete separation of t h e tu-o puhlications, indicated a circiilation of approximately 22,500 for Alnnlytical. E v e n thib figure \vas someiThat of a surprise t o many but not t o us, for t h e Opinion Research Corporation's survey, conducted as a p a r t of the Hancocli Report, indicated th@ 577, of t h e mem-1m-s of t h c AJIERICLS C H E V I C~L SOCIETY read or re-Ec.ircd iqylarly t o t h c . h a l y t i c a l Edition. This is not the ~vliole story, of cour;Sc, since approximately one quarter of the circulation of t h e Industrial and h n a l y t ical Editions, through 1947 sold only a s a combination, is nonmember subscriptions. Holyever, t h e figure of

The first meeting for the organization of the American Chemical Society was held on the evening of April 6, 1876, in the Lecture Room of the College of Pharmacy in the old building of New York University on Washington Square. An excellent account of this meeting is recorded in the American Chemist.1 As copies of that journal are rare, it has been deemed advisable to prepare an account of the incidents of that evening in permanent form, and I have been asked, as one of the two living men who were present, to make some brief notes of the occasion, which is now historic.